The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-02-05
c FOR FARMERS.

Agriculture makes the true riches
Of q nation Chicago Tribune.
Make your butter so good as 10
carry it clear out of competition Win
all substitutes.-M Y. Herald.
One way to make the farm pay IS
to have something to turn into money
every day in the year, as nearly as
possible.-N Y. Witness.
The farmer who gets the most eggs
is the one who gets up earliest and Sc
cures to his flock a good, warm break
fast by daylight. -Erchange.
Every farmer must know what kind
Of swine breed well and are wanted in
the markets. That is the kind which
can be bred with profit. Troy Times.
Keeping all sizes together is a fruit
full source of disease in swine. Still the
custom is followed year by year, and
careless men never cease to wonder
why their hogs are sick.-Prai1s
Farmer.
Although large tree a be trans-
planted to a new location, yet it will
not grow as rapidly nor as large as n
hat has occupied the same place since
it sprung from the seed Western
Rural.
-Linseed meal has been found to be
a great promoter of egg-laying. Mixed
with scalded meal or shorts, or with
sour milk. it is readily eaten, and is a
good substitute for animal food and in.
sects.-Detrott Tribune.
An Illinois farmer gives his hogs
red-pepper tea on their showing symp-
toms of cholera, and claims this has al.
ways proved an eflectual cure, and that
he has never lost a porker so treated,
while his neighbors have suffered seri-
ously. Chicago News.
The following describe the charac-
~teristic points of excellence in any breed
of hogs: Face short. fine and well
dished; wide between the eyes; ears
fine and thin; neck short and thick;
jowl large; shoulders broad and deep;
back broad and straight; ribs we'll
arched, making the legs broad and
strong; hips good length; hams thick.
full and deep; coat, fine and soft; legs
short, straight and strongly E.
Farmer.
The agricultural colleges are trying
to help the large number of young men
who a only devote a few weeks in
winter to a course of study. The idea
is to have q short course of studies and
lectures covering the practical princi-
pies in the various lines Of agricultural
science, lasting four to six weeks
sort Of prolonged farmers institute Of
the best kind.-C Chicago Journal.
Practically, the problem which the
feeder has to solve is, how to supply HE
cattle with such food and in such guam.
Titles as to insure the largest amount OF
increase with the smallest possible loss.
And for this purpose it is necessary,
not only to select the largest quantity
If nutritive matter, but to attend to
The proportion in which they arr mixed,
and to restrain ms far as possible all
hose functions which are productive Of
waste. .-Rurdl NcW Yorker.
"A New York farmer raised one
hundred bushels of shelled corn to the
,cre. 1t was from land that had been
NO years in clover. Under each hill
vas placed a handful Of hen manure
lusted with lime. This is a fertilizer
hat will bring good returns every time.
it must not came in direct contact
With the seeds. Yet how few farmers
md gardeners appreciate the natural
ertilizer, thousands of tons of which 60
o waste, while vast sums are paid for
artificial fertilizers.-New York Post.